May 20, Vancouver Province: With the very real possibility that Pittsburgh and Detroit could meet in a rematch of last year's final, many are wondering how good it would look on Hossa if the Pens were able to win that series and win a Stanley Cup. While the Wings would doubtless enter such a hypothetical series as favourites, it would certainly be a laugh on the Cup-chasing Hossa if the Pens were to win after he was offered a big-money contract to stay in Pittsburgh.

Pens GM Ray Shero made Hossa a big-money offer to stay last year with a five-year deal for more money than Hossa will ever see in the new market dampened by the financial meltdown. But he decided he had to have a cup win before he retired and he went to Detroit for a one-year deal.

He felt the Wings were his best chance at a Cup and he may well be proven right before all is said and done. But if Pittsburgh were in fact to go on and win, many believe the Benedict Arnold routine would look good on him given the fact the Pens did most everything in their power to keep him and still he bolted for the team that beat them last year. The question is whether that would be called coincidence, bad luck, irony or justice.